Historical crime fiction

Letters from a Murderer by John Matthews

By RoughJustice

28 September, 2013

If you’re interested in historical crime, whether fact or fiction, then John Matthews has produced a book with a fantastic conceit. The Jack the Ripper case was never solved. The murders of prostitutes in Victorian London’s East End just stopped and many thought that either…

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The Chatelet Apprentice by Jean-Francois Parot

By MarinaSofia

20 August, 2013

We’ve already introduced the Nicolas Le Floch historical crime fiction series earlier this year, but Gallic Press is currently re-issuing its translation of these novels for the US market. A great opportunity to take a look at them in more detail, starting with the first…

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A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd

By MarinaSofia

9 August, 2013

There is a small but growing body of crime fiction featuring real historical people – Jed Rubenfeld’s Sigmund Freud series, for instance, or Nicola Upson’s Josephine Tey. In this book it’s the Romantic Poets, particularly Percy Bysshe Shelley, who take centre stage. There is always…

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Season of Darkness by Maureen Jennings

By RoughJustice

31 July, 2013

The author of Season of Darkness is a British ex-pat living in Canada, who is well known for writing the seven books in the Murdoch Mysteries series. These have benefited from a popular TV adaptation. Tom Tyler is her new creation, making his first appearance…

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Demons Walk Among Us by Jonathan Hicks

By DavidPrestidge

27 July, 2013

Last year, Hicks introduced us to Captain Thomas Oscendale, of The Military Foot Police. In The Dead of Mametz, he was investigating treachery and murder during the Battle of The Somme. Now, he is in the Ypres Salient, and it is 1917, a year later….

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Interview: George Mann

By RoughJustice

12 July, 2013

History, horror, fantasy and mystery. It’s Victorian crime fiction but not as we know it in the books of George Mann. Released today, The Executioner’s Heart is the fourth in his Newbury & Hobbes series. In it, there’s a seriel killer stalking the streets of…

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The Ways of the World by Robert Goddard

By DavidPrestidge

1 July, 2013

Spring 1919. The Great War is over. Farmers along the former Western Front struggle to restore the shattered landscape. A new war is beginning. Not a war of bullets and shrapnel, but a war of words and promises, both kept and broken. Not a war…

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A Man Without Breath

By DavidPrestidge

20 June, 2013

When David Prestidge reviewed the latest from Philip Kerr earlier this year, he called it “a modern masterpiece”. Central character Bernie Gunther is a cynical German cop. He has experienced hell on earth in The Great War, but the German invasion of Russia in 1941…

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Letters from a Murderer by John Matthews

The Chatelet Apprentice by Jean-Francois Parot

A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd

Season of Darkness by Maureen Jennings

Demons Walk Among Us by Jonathan Hicks

Interview: George Mann

The Ways of the World by Robert Goddard

A Man Without Breath

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